Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:41:53 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> Cc: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110280835230.9635@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1110280716120.13907@nber6> References: <15996.1319704110@tristatelogic.com> <op.v306g2om34t2sn@tech304> <Pine.GSO.4.64.1110280716120.13907@nber6>
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Mark Felder wrote: > >> You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it would >> take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my print jobs are >> instantaneous here at work instead of being a mystery. Can't wait to go >> home and do the same with my personal laser. > > Has anyone here experience with PDQ? It is a printing system that appears to > address the problems cited in this thread. > > http://pdq.sourceforge.net/ > > Quoting from the website: > > Most casual unix users regard lp and lpr as > black holes to which print jobs disappear, > and may or may not emerge. The arguments seem weak to me, and it sounds like a reinvention of lpd. It's unfortunate that many people see CUPS as the default choice.
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